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Tea, Coffee, And Cocoa

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United Kingdom

Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 2 ingredients

  1. Water
  2. A teaspoonful of tea

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. Tea (To Make).
  2. Dr.
  3. Kitchener.
  4. All the necessary water should be poured in at once, as it spoils it to have a second drawing.
  5. Tea (To Make).
  6. The water should be fresh boiled.
  7. Scald the tea-pot and empty it ;
  8. then put in as much water as necessary for the first cups.
  9. Put the tea on it, and close the lid as quickly as possible.
  10. Let it stand three minutes and a half, or if the quantity be large, four minutes.
  11. Then fill the cups.
  12. By this means the aroma is preserved instead of escaping with the steam, as it does when the water is poured on the tea.
  13. Tea (To Make).
  14. Always heat the tea-pot before putting in the tea by standing it over hot water.
  15. A teaspoonful of tea for each person and one over is the usual allowance, and then make sure the water boils, and the moment it boils pour it over the tea, and then let it stand for six minutes (neither more nor less) to draw.
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Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan